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Acción Humanitaria Por Venezuela is a remarkable organization dedicated to serving rural areas and neighborhoods impacted by high levels of crime and insecurity in Venezuela. Acción Humanitaria distributes medicine and aid to hospitals and rural clinics. In March of 2018, Cuatro Por Venezuela and Acción Humanitaria partnered together to form a new program, Nurishing Hope in the state…

Our partners Se Busca un Padrino recently delivered a donation of school supplies to primary schools in Punto Fijo and surrounding areas. Continue reading to see the original report in Spanish as well as a photo gallery below. The delivery was made to communities in need in Punto Fijo and the surrounding areas where there…

The United Nations has released its latest report on Food and National Security in Latin America where it finds that the rates of hunger in Venezuela have tripled since 2010. This story was reported in English by the Miami Herald and reported in Spanish in El Pais.

A complex humanitarian emergency is defined by the United Nations as “a humanitarian crisis in a country, region or society in which there is a total or considerable breakdown of authority, as a result of internal or external conflict, and which requires an international response that goes beyond the mandate or capacity of a single…

Senior citizens in Venezuela have been especially impacted by the country’s economic and humanitarian crisis. Interamerican Commission for Human Rights released a joint statement earlier this month detailing their findings. See the full press release here.

In this heart-breaking report, MARIANA ATENCIO reports on her father’s illness and the Venezuelan health crisis. This NBC article illustrates the urgent need in Venezuela for medicine and medical supplies.

The World Health Organization reports on the Venezuelan Humanitarian Crisis “In Venezuela, the diphtheria outbreak that began in July 2016 remains active (Figure below). Since the start of the outbreak until EW 10 of 2018, a total of 1,602 suspected diphtheria cases were reported (324 cases in 2016, 1,040 in 2017, and 238 in 2018),…

From The New York Times: ‘We’re Losing the Fight’: Tuberculosis Batters a Venezuela in Crisis The disease, which until recently seemed to be under control in Venezuela, is making an aggressive comeback in the nation, overwhelming its broken health care system. Read more here.

“In my state of Monagas, in the first two and a half months of 2018 we have seen 34 children die of malnutrition. A family needs the equivalent of 22 salaries just to get a basic basket of food, to cover the basic nutrition for a month for children in their family.” This heart-breaking article…

For the fifth year in a row, the National Assembly’s Committee on Social Development has published the 2018 Government Survey of National Hospitals ENCUESTA NACIONAL DE HOSPITALES 2018). The results show an accelerating decline in hospital services and supplies and a rise in 79% of health centers have a critical lack medical and surgical supplies 86%…